Educational Programmes Standing Committee
The Working Party was established in 2003 when small groups of interested BIHS members were formed to deliver specific projects on behalf of the Executive Committee.
| Chair: Professor Mike Okorie
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| Members | |
| Dr Manish Sinha | Dr Carmel McEniery |
| Dr Sinead McDonagh | |
| Mrs Alison Warren | |
| Dr Philip Lewis (Exec Rep) |
Remit:
- To develop, organise, deliver and evaluate a range of educational initiatives across primary and secondary health care to improve knowledge and skills in the prevention, detection and management of hypertension and related diseases
- To develop and continue to update BIHS educational content on a variety of topics in hypertension and related diseases
- To develop e-learning as a mode of delivery in the teaching and learning of topics in hypertension and related diseases
- To publicise widely the educational activities of the BIHS
- To develop and co-ordinate a cluster approach to teaching and learning in hypertension and related diseases, with a particular focus on primary care. This will include the appointment of BIHS Education Ambassadors who will take the teaching and learning to healthcare facilities
- To collaborate with other societies and organisations to promote educational activities in hypertension and related diseases across the multi-professional health care team
- To explore the validation of a UK Specialist Accreditation Programme in hypertension including curriculum design, assessment and quality assurance